The transition to Electric Vehicles

The report shows that the transition will require around 30% increase in grid capacity, and will need to address interoperability, data sharing, integrated national and local planning and smart charging so the storage capacity of vehicle batteries and off-peak charging can minimise the additional grid power requirements.

A Roadmap to Net Zero

A thorough analysis of which measures can, and need to be exponentially scaled up to halve emissions by 2030 and reduce them to zero by 2050. Arguments to shorten the timescale need to come up with their own credible figures. By 361energy.org

Journalist article on Yealm Community Energy from interview with Director Andrew Moore

How we can reach zero carbon electricity and gas by 2015

Scenarios from the national grid covering transport, heating, electricity generation and gas. What needs to be done and what it will look like. See the summary of the report here

REGEN Market Insights – Fuel Poverty graphic

The graphic illustrates the high energy costs that a disproportionately high number of fuel poor households pay in the lowest efficiency housing.

The average fuel costs for different EPC bands (A – G) are shown ranging from £939 to £2,861 in the least-efficient housing, around an average of £1,140. The high proportion of fuel poverty in the least efficient housing (D – G) highlights not just a social issue, but a problem for the progress of decarbonisation of the energy system. Poor energy efficiency is a key driver of fuel poverty, as the second graph illustrates.

The graphic shows how the number of households in fuel poverty has changed in the last five years. There has been some progress, as the numbers in bands E – F have reduced, and increased in A – D. However, fuel poor households still make up far greater-than-average proportions of the lowest efficiency housing, paying more to heat their homes.

Committee on Climate Change report to government recommends how to phase out greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. May 2019

Energy World April 2019 on the future for community energy.

The article features Yealm Community Energy and discusses the more challenging financial environment faced by new community schemes in the immediate future in the absence of subsidies (does not apply to Newton Downs or Creacombe).